Hybrid Research Collective - New York
Ashley Dawson
Occupy Climate Change!
Hybrid Research Collective
Kate Aronoff is a freelance writer, communications coordinator for the New Economy Coalition and a co-founder of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network. She writes frequently on climate politics for magazines such as The Intercept , In These Times , The Nation , and Waging Nonviolence .
Daniel Aldana Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2018-19, he’ll be a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Social Science, where he’ll work on the politics of climate change, investigating the intersections of climate change, political economy, inequalities of race and social class, and political projects of elites and social movements in global cities of the North and South. In new qualitative work, Cohen is turning toward urban-rural links (especially energy landscapes). He’s also increasingly interested in working collaboratively on quantitative techniques to address these research concerns through comprehensive carbon-footprint analysis, coordinating that analysis with other approaches to socio-spatial segregation. To that end he has founded the Socio-Spatial Carbon Collaborative, or (SC)2.
May Joseph is the founder of the environmental theater company Harmattan Theater based in New York City, and Professor of Social Science at Pratt Institute where she teaches a walking history course of New York's coastal environs. Joseph is the author of Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination (Duke University Press, 2013) and Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1999). Joseph’s artistic and theoretical work is interested in the impact of climate change on global governance, migrancy, coastal societies and water politics. Drawing on coastal and river cities, visual culture and performance, Joseph’s critical investigations explore the relationships between sea faring communities, embodiment, flows of people, and citizenship processes.
Kendra Sullivan is an artist, writer, boatmaker, and curator whose work centers the study of ecosystems and the ocean. She is the associate director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she runs the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research and publishes Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. She has a MA in Sustainability and Environmental Education and is currently pursuing her PhD in English with a focus on ecocriticism at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, F.R. DAVID, Afterall, and C magazine. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY; The Bureau for Open Culture at MASS MoCA; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, among others. Her curatorial projects include SeaWorthy, Accompaniment, and Resistance After Nature. With Dylan Gauthier, she is an artist in residence at the National Park Service and the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (2017-2018) and has received grants and residencies from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, the Banff Centre, Blue Mountain Center, the Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Montello Foundation. She is a member of the eco-art collective Mare Liberum and a co-founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a community space for art and politics run out of a stopped-in-time diner in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.